“Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
Paul wrote his letter to the Ephesians from prison around 60 AD. In a culture where Roman fathers held absolute legal authority over their children — including the power of life and death — this verse was radical.
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